And the hallowed halls of Necrontyr Online, which I was a relatively new but growing part of. A small number of us were just getting into a cracking Necrons vs Orks RP story before Zetaboards went belly up and then the forum followed suit.
not much of a poster, but long time enjoyer of the forum. @Lizards of Renown hasgreat content and help made this forum so welcoming. <3 to all the community
Does Discord have some inherent advantage over conventional forums? I don't have much experience with Discord, so I'm curious as to why so many people migrate over to it (over regular forums). And the Chaos Dwarf community lives on. Even when neglected for decades by GW, they persist. Unbreakable. @Lizards of Renown The man. The myth. The legend.
From my own experience it is more like the old messenger chat, so a lot more live action of a discussion/group chat. Forum boards i'd say have better systems for lengthy posts and proper threads (although you can pin posts in discord which lets you jump to them.) Discord works a lot better for playing rpgs if you are able to get a handle on the coding, have the option for video and audio chat, and generally are a lot easier to upload pictures to.
Well, even the TK forum was not completely dead, and has been a little awakened by the release of TOW.
That's good news. As for the Chaos Dwarf community, I was simply trying to make the point that no matter what GW does with any of their games, that community endures. Decades without support... no problem. Killing of WHFB... no problem. While they are a relatively small group, I've never seen a wargaming community with their level of resilience.
That's for sure. Cadia broke before the guard did, GW could fall before we'll do. Yep, they truly embraced the spirit of their faction.
I used Discord video chat to keep my RPG going through the Covid times. Now that we don't have to social distance, we sometimes still use Discord because I live an hour away from a lot of my friends. Discord is great for real time or short-term open conversations about various topics, but forums like this one are better if you want to have an enduring reference. Given the nature of tabletop miniatures wargames, any game system any army is going to want to galleries of completed models and terrain. They are going to want to have how-to guides for painting and modeling. They are probably going to want to have army building guidelines, tier rankings for unit choices, battle reports, and tacticas. All of these things are in my opinion easier with a forum system like this than they are on Discord. I do think one of the aspects of Discord that make it popular is that that is cross-compatible. Discord has its finger in so many pies hypothetically a person with diverse and multiple interests could be part of a knitting Discord, a current events discussion Discord, a fantasy sports league Discord, and an RPG Discord. I myself am part of the World Anvil Discord (which is very broad with many specific sub-Discord), my local gaming store (which includes tabletop miniatures AND RPGS), and Midjourney's AI art generator tool works primarily through it's own Discord channel. And it duplicates as an option to text friends through. And it's free.
I don't believe anyone on the forum knows for certain, but the speculation is... The best we can do is hope that this is not the case and that he is okay.